According to Luis Buñuel, Simone Signoret missed her husband Yves Montand so much that "on her way to join us in Mexico, she slipped some Communist documents into her passport, hoping to be turned away by American Immigration".
Luis Buñuel biographer John Baxter claims that Jean Genet was hired to write a script but disappeared on being paid.
In her memoirs, Simone Signoret spoke most warmly about working with Luis Bunuel on this film, but when his own autobiography was published many years later, it was a lot less complimentary about her.
First seen in Britain (in 1958) only in a dubbed version luridly re-titled "Evil Eden".
Debut actress Michèle Girardon.